19 May 2019 — FAIR
Once again the Washington Post (
5/14/19) presents the United States as “drifting toward war”—this time with Iran.
The Washington Post editorial’s headline (5/14/19) had the US “drifting” toward war with Iran—another example, as analyst Nima Shirazi quipped, of the “world’s superpower somehow having no agency over its own imperialism.”
19 May 2019 — Tim Hayward
“A huge international news story broke last week,” writes Peter Hitchens, in the Mail on Sunday today, “but I doubt you will hear about it anywhere else.”
19 May 2019 — London Green Left
Written by Eric Toussaint and first published at CADTM
While the campaign for the European elections on 26 May (on the 23 May in the UK) draws very little interest outside of the UK, the initiative launched by ReCommonsEurope with its ‘Manifesto for a new popular internationalism in Europe’ is on to a promising start.
17 May 2019 — Global Research
By Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null
The New York Times continues to descend further into spewing fiction masquerading as news. Its most recent analysis challenges Judith Miller‘s delusional screed about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction as sheer nonsense. Evidently the Times has a propensity for disgracing itself. Now the newspaper’s latest low is William Broad’s essay, “Your 5G Phone Won’t Hurt You But Russia Wants You to Think Otherwise,” touting a wild conspiracy theory that 5G technology’s severe risks to human health and the environment is a covert Russian plot intended to sow confusion into the minds of the American public.
17 May 2019 — Mint Press
New information released by the FBI has brought fresh scrutiny to the possibility that the “Dancing Israelis,” at least two of whom were known Mossad operatives, had prior knowledge of the attacks on the World Trade Center.
19 May 2019 — Terry Bell Writes
Most South Africans are probably more than ready for an alternative political dispensation. That much seems clear, given the results of last week’s national and provincial elections where the gatvol [fed up] factor was in full play.
18 May 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has begun responding to queries by the press about a leaked document which contradicts official OPCW findings on an alleged chemical weapons attack last year in Douma, Syria. The prepared statement they’ve been using in response to these queries confirms the authenticity of the document.
18 May 2019 — WSWS
The so-called “ Christchurch Call ” summit in Paris on Wednesday, led by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron, marked a significant escalation of the drive by governments throughout the world to censor the Internet.
18 May 2019 — WSWS
UK Prime Minister Theresa May is set to stand down as Tory party leader and prime minister after her European Union Withdrawal Agreement Bill goes before Parliament in the first week of June. Since May reached a deal with the EU in November, she has been unable to secure agreement from a deeply divided parliament.
18 May 2019 21:50 — The New Dark Age
Freedom Rider: U.S. Wages War Against the World
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/05/18/freedom-rider-u-s-wages-war-against-the-world/
Venezuela: Amnesty International in Service of Empire
https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/05/venezuela-amnesty-international-in-service-of-empire/
18 May 2019 — The New Dark Age
US warns airlines risk ‘miscalculation or misidentification’ over Persian Gulf
https://www.rt.com/news/459679-us-iran-miscalculation-warning/
Chinese purchases of Iranian oil raise tantalizing questions
17 May 2019 — Black Agenda Report
– Glen Ford , BAR executive editor
US rulers promised that technology would bring the return of the millions of jobs that were outsourced to low-wage countries, but America has lost the hi-tech race and excels only in weapons of war.
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17 May 2019 — Economic Questions
One of Margaret Thatcher’s often-used slogans was TINA, or “there is no alternative.” There is no alternative, she meant, to the neoliberalism that became dominant in the 1970s and 1980s. After a coup led to the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991, this idea led to even more smug declarations of victory for the neoliberal order as well as the popularization of Francis Fukuyama’s articulation of the “end of history.”
16 May 2019 — Climate & Capitalism
There is a good reason why there are blue skies in much of the United States while those of us living in Northeast Asia are choking — most of their factories have moved over here.
17 May 2019 20:15 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day
Venezuela ROUNDUP: U.S. raid Venezuela embassy a brutal act against international law, says Maduro
Who’s Behind the Pro-Guaidó Crowd Besieging Venezuela’s D.C. Embassy?
https://www.mintpressnews.com/whos-behind-the-pro-guaido-crowd-besieging-venezuelan-embassy-in-dc/258533/
17 May 2019 20:20 — The New Dark Age
There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated through the day
Foreign Office warns against Iran travel for British-Iranians
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48314799
Top Ten Differences Between the Iraq War and Trump’s Proposed Iran War
https://www.globalresearch.ca/top-ten-differences-iraq-war-trumps-proposed-iran-war/5677742
11 May 2019 — News from Nowhere
This is part 4 of a series of articles entitled ‘Astroturfing the way for the Fourth Industrial Revolution’.
Here are the links to the other parts:
0) Introduction: Some Inconvenient Truths about Extinction Rebellion and the Climate Mobilisation movement
1) Dr Gail Marie Bradbrook: Compassionate Revolutionary… for hire?
2) Political Charities and the Brave New World of Professional Activism
3) Green Gail and the Technocratic Industrialists: Citizens Online’s Digitopian Nightmare
Exactly a month on from the beginning of Extinction Rebellion’s demonstrations in London, the British Parliament has approved Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s motion to declare a national ‘climate emergency’ – being one of the group’s three demands. This comes two days after pro-Corbyn campaign group Momentum declared its ‘union’ with Extinction Rebellion in the Guardian [1]. The rallying of the climate movement under the Labour party is an entirely predictable affair. And already we have cardboard cut-out [2] ex-Labour leader Ed Miliband declaring that “Politics needs to be on a war footing to deal with this enemy.”
17 May 2019 — True Publica
TruePublica Editor: You may have read various reports in the media this last week about falling GP numbers. Below is the unedited output from the National Health Executive where the mainstream media got their numbers from.
16 May 2019 — Washington’s Blog
If Iran had spent the last few decades lying about and threatening the United States, and had attacked and built military bases in Canada and Mexico, and had imposed sanctions on the United States that were creating great suffering, and then a lying scheming war-crazed Iranian official announced that he believed the United States had put some missiles on some fishing boats in the Chesapeake Bay, would you believe that . . .
16 May 2019 — Consortium News
The author delivered this speech at the Perdana Global Peace Forum 2006 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on June 22, 2006. That year the U.S. had deployed aircraft carriers to the Persian Gulf and tensions then, as now, were high.
